Dr. Peter R Young

Brief Bio

Dr Young grew up in the town of Amble in England and read Mathematics at Cambridge University. After completing Part III of the Maths Tripos he obtained a PhD working with Dr Helen Mason at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. His thesis title was "EUV Spectroscopy of Solar and Stellar Atmospheres". Following a postdoctoral position at Cambridge he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to work at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics with Dr Andrea Dupree on the analysis of stellar spectra from the FUSE mission. Dr Young returned to England to take up a position at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory where he was the SOHO/CDS Project Scientist and the RAL Project Manager for Hinode/EIS. In 2008 he moved back to the USA to join the Hinode/EIS team at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC, where he was employed by George Mason University. In 2015 he moved to the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and in 2018 he became a civil servant with NASA.

Dr Young has published over 100 articles that have received more than 7000 citations, and he has a h-index of 39. A full publication list is available.

Positions/Employment

2018
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Present

Research Astrophysicist

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, MD, USA

2016
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Present

Visiting Professor

University of Northumbria,
Newcastle, United Kingdom

2015
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2018

Research Professor

George Mason University,
Fairfax, VA

(based at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

2008
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2015

Research Professor

George Mason University,
Fairfax, VA (based at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)

2002
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2008

Solar Physicist

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,
United Kingdom

1999
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2002

Astrophysicist

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,
Cambridge, MA

1998
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1999

Postdoctoral Research Associate

University of Cambridge,
United Kingdom

Education

1998, PhD, University of Cambridge 1996, MA, University of Cambridge 1993, Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics, University of Cambridge 1992, BA, University of Cambridge

Professional Societies

Royal Astronomical Society
,
2003
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Present

American Astronomical Society,
2008
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Present

American Geophysical Union,
2014
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Present

International Astronomical Union,
2015
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Present

Awards

Group Achievement Award for the CHIANTI atomic database, Royal Astronomical Society, 2010

Group Achievement Award for the Hinode/EIS mission, Royal Astronomical Society, 2015

Brief Bio

Dr Young grew up in the town of Amble in England and read Mathematics at Cambridge University. After completing Part III of the Maths Tripos he obtained a PhD working with Dr Helen Mason at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. His thesis title was "EUV Spectroscopy of Solar and Stellar Atmospheres". Following a postdoctoral position at Cambridge he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to work at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics with Dr Andrea Dupree on the analysis of stellar spectra from the FUSE mission. Dr Young returned to England to take up a position at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory where he was the SOHO/CDS Project Scientist and the RAL Project Manager for Hinode/EIS. In 2008 he moved back to the USA to join the Hinode/EIS team at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC, where he was employed by George Mason University. In 2015 he moved to the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and in 2018 he became a civil servant with NASA.

Dr Young has published over 100 articles that have received more than 7000 citations, and he has a h-index of 39. A full publication list is available.